When Do Adaptive Mutants Arise in Yeast? This exercise examines when adaptive mutations arise in a population. Students prepare cultures of baker's yeast on normal agar media and then transfer the exact spatial pattern of these colonies to agar plates containing copper using the replica-plating technique. They compare the pattern of mutant ...Author(s): Corey A. Goldman,Michael Dennison

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"Photography as Prophecy: India 1839-1900"A talk by Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology & Visual Culture, University College London; Visiting Crowe Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University. From the South Asia Seminar.Author(s): The Center for International Studies at the Univer

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Measuring methane above the Arctic This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Michelle Cain of the University of Cambridge and Stéphane Bauguitte of the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements explain how and why they're measuring methane in the atmosphere above the Arctic -- a region that's warming twice as fast as anywhere else on our planet.Author(s): No creator set

Luxury: Catering to the Super-Wealthy The rich “are different from you and me,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Yes, but just how different? And what do they want to buy? Meet the new Ultra High Net Worth IndividualAuthor(s): No creator set

The electronic configuration of an atom can be obtained by allocating its electrons to s, p, d and f sub-shells in the order given by Figure 21. This procedure generates a periodicity in electronic configuration which matches that of the Periodic Table.

24.209 Philosophy In Film and Other Media (MIT) This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in other arts, particularly literature and opera. Emphasis is put on film's ability to represent and express feeling as well as cognition. Both written and cinematic works by Sturges, Shaw, Cocteau, Hitchcock, Joyce, and Bergman, among others, are considered. There are no tests or quizzes, however students write two major papers on media/philosophical research topics of their choosing.Author(s): Singer, Irving

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15.795 Seminar in Operations Management (MIT) This seminar will explore the purposes and development of Technology Roadmaps for systematically mapping out possible development paths for various technological domains and the industries that build on them. Data of importance for such roadmaps include rates of innovation, key bottlenecks, physical limitations, improvement trendlines, corporate intent, and value chain and industry evolutionary paths. The course will build on ongoing work on the MIT Communications Technology Roadmap project, butAuthor(s): Fine, Charles H.

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Madinat al-zahra?: Investigaci?n y representaci?n [Madinat al-Zahra?: Investigation and Representati The virtual reconstruction of the archeological site of Madinat al-Zahra. in C?rdoba (Spain) has permitted a new approach to the study and comprehension of this palatine city as well as to the typologies of Islamic architecture in Al-Andalus during the 10th century. Starting from fieldwork and from a photogrammetric survey of the site, the digital model has become a highly qualified tool in the research process. Through virtual navigation, it allows to learn new aspects about spatial configuratiAuthor(s): Antonio Almagro Gorbea; Ana Almagro Vidal; Jos? An

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Woman fills village with dolls Japanese woman fills a village with dolls as the population in the area declines. Chris Meyers reports.
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Murder of soccer captain Senzo Meyiwa shocks South Africa South Africa is shocked and saddened by national soccer captain Senzo Meyiwa's murder, after he was shot dead by burglars during a break-in at his girlfriend's house. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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Lawrence Bailey - Market Research Valedictory Lecture Colleagues from both academia and business were present on 27 January 2011 for Lawrence Bailey's guest lecture on Market Segmentation, Qualitative Research and Conversations Across the Garden Wall.
The garden wall of the lecture's title was Lawrence's metaphor for the potential divide between the two sectors.
The lecture reflected Lawrence's career-long wish to get qualitative researchers in the commercial world to talk to their counterparts in the academic world, and vice versa. He discusseAuthor(s): Lawrence Bailey,Leeds Metropolitan University

Just as Professor Bernanke exits center stage at the end of Act I of the monetary comedy he created, the scene shifts to Frankfurt. The star of Act II is
European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi. As we pick up the story, Mr. Draghi has been launching a defense against a phantom threat of deflation.

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Games Technologies for Learning The Games Technologies for Learning report explores the ways in which games technologies can be used to enhance teaching and learning, and provides advice for schools and colleges wishing to introduce...Author(s): No creator set

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U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child Lesson Modules In recognition of the historic 18th Birthday of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), we have assembled a human rights education media environment to help introduce the CRC to learners. Our intended audience is young adults, middle school through early college. The components include an interactive workshop on the CRC which can be easily facilitated in a single class period, background information on the Convention, the text of the CRC including a shortened child-friendly versionAuthor(s): No creator set

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Remembering Things Past: A Conversation Celebrating Anne Truitt On the opening night of "Anne Truitt," join us for a discussion moderated by Tim Gunn, chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne and a former student of Truitt's. Artist Martin Puryear, filmmaker Jem Cohen, photographer John Gossage, and curator Kristen Hileman share their unique perspectives on Truitt's career as an artist, professor, and author. Author(s): No creator set

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Film Professionals on Farocki's "Workers Leaving a Factory" Filmmaker Joanna Raczynska, Filmmaker and Professor of Film at the University of Maryland Fred Worden, and Film and Media Arts Programmer at the National Museum of Women in the Arts KJ Mohr discuss Farocki’s “Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades” as a springboard for discussing themes in "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image."Author(s): No creator set